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Stigma
A Process of Judgment
Stigma
INTRO
--What is stigma?
--What is the pupose of
stigma?
--Is there a purpose for
stigma?
1
Clinical Studies--Physcial Disabilities A Psychological Approach (1960).
2
Academic Studies of Stigma
Medicine--Facial Deformaties and Plastic Surgery (1953).
3
Mental Health--The Patient and the Mental Hospital (1957).
Social Information
Social Information
"The information the individual directly conveys about themselves" (Preface).
Vision
Vision
Popularity
Reputation (or Rep) is an important social resource for many people today.
How many followers do you have?
How many tweets did you get?
Had you seen that stunt on Youtube?
Have you seen their sex video?
Society
Stigma and Social Identity
Establishes the means of categorizing persons and the complement of attributes felt to be ordinary and natural for members of each of these categories" (Goffman 2).
"Righteously presented demands" (Goffman. 2)
Normative Expectations
Normative Expectations
Social Settings
There are expectations, according to Goffman, that dictate individual behavior out in society. If true, what does this mean for individual freedom/ action?
A well behaved child (Family)
A well hehaved husband/ wife (Family)
A well behaved student (Education)
A well behaved President (Politics)
Social Identity
SOCIAL LOCATION
Virtual & Actual Identity
"[T]he character we impute to the individual might better be seen as an imputation made in potential retrospect--a chacterization 'in effect,' a virtual social identity" (Goffman, 2).
Individuals make claims about sense of self but claims of self can gain credit or can be discredited.
"The category and attributes he (or she) could in fact be proved to possess will be called his (or her) actual social identity" (ibid).
Perosnal Idenitity
1) The idea of "uniqueness" of an individual, the face is the anchor for social identification (56).
Personal Identity
2) The facts known about an intimate, not to be found in others around the world (ibid).
3) To distinguish one based on his "core of his (or her) being,..., making them different through and through" (ibid).